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This New Gilded Age 0
Thom runs the numbers.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is not scripture. Rather, it’s a Republican family value.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A digital gaslighter? At Psychology Today Blogs, Koustuv Saha notes that (emphasis added)
But as emotional reliance deepens, many gradually withdraw from real-world and in-person human contact. Over weeks and months, users can feel heightened loneliness and decreased engagement in the physical world. The comfort that once felt supportive can quietly transform into dependence.
Follow the link for context.
Election Day 0
We shall be going to the polls in a little while.
As my father taught me through example, voting is not a right. It’s a duty.
And I am certain that, if more persons had done their duty a year ago, the country would not be facing the dangers it faces today.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin, in the voice of Gervase Fen:
Never forget that political zealots are people who are over-indulging their emotional need of hatred.
“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past . . . .”* 0
My local rag published an excellent letter to the editor from Robin C. Comfort regarding the actions of the Trump maladministration. In the midst of it, almost in passing, the writer poses a question which I find quite germane:
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The Disinformation Superhighway Meets
Still Rising Again after All These Years
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SFGate’s Drew Magary tried Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, a would-be competitor for Wikipedia.
Facebook Frolics 0
Retired police officer gets thrown in jail for posting a meme on the Zuckerborg.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Self-Driven to Destruction 0
When all else fails, blame the victim.
Undone Process, the Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains how the Trump maladministration is punishing lawyers for representing clients that it dislikes.
Republican Thought Police 0
Mary Trump discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to you-will-pardon-the-expression whitewash America’s history. She argues that
Donald Trump wants to make history class white again. His regime continues to attack our education system and limit discussions on race, gender, colonialism, AND the Constitution. Especially the limits it outlines on executive power.
Stray Question 0
Am I the only persons who sees not a little irony–if that’s a strong enough term–in Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of establishmentariarism?